Born at Pembroke Castle in January 1457, Henry Tudor, the subject of this biography, was the son of Edmund Tudor and the Lady Margaret Beaufort. After Edward IV had defeated the Lancastrian Henry VI in battle, the young Henry Tudor was taken into custody by the Earl of Pembroke at his seat, Raglan Castle in Wales. Henry spent 14 years in Wales and another 14 as a political exile at the Court of Francois II of Brittany.